Women waste millions on clothes they do not wear. Women have an average of 14 unused items costing an average of £21.82 a piece, a survey for Churchill Home Insurance found.
Shoes top the list of items which women buy and do not wear, while shirts are number one "most unworn" item of men’s clothing.
Women in the UK have an average £305 worth of clothes in their wardrobe which have not been worn in the last year, the research found.
British women collectively own around £7.3 billion worth of clothes they do not wear, with each spending around £12,810 during their working life, the insurer said.
By contrast, men have an average of nine items of clothing they have not worn in the last year, each with a price tag averaging £18.68.
This adds up to £7901 worth of unwanted clothes over the average man’s working life.
The January sales are the time when women are most likely to buy garments which never see the light of day.